Example sentences of "back to the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 2 | And the chances are that by the time the market picks up again in 1991 we will be back to the 1983 figure . |
| 3 | There is a sense in which after much complex art , much elaborate art , much sermonizing art of the sort I was talking about earlier , people sometimes get the urge to simplify things down and in a sense they say let's go back to the five finger exercise , let's see what a note on the piano sounds like instead of playing , you know , Chopin or Stravinsky all the time , let's remind ourselves what the actual note sounds like , or two notes together , or one note and then a gap and then another note , and you suddenly become aware of the richness , in a sense in these very simple elements . |
| 4 | Entering the Portal will transport you back to the five doors where you can visit another country and city . |
| 5 | Going back to the six months one erm where you 've fifteen thousand |
| 6 | All of which brings us back to the 1987 State of World Population Report and its coded messages . |
| 7 | UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 [ see p. 37433 ] , which referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland [ see pp. 35227-29 ] . |
| 8 | This in turn referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development , commonly known as the Brundtland Commission after its chair , the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Mrs Gro Harlem Brundtland . |
| 9 | If you cast your mind back to the 1966 World Cup , you may recall that Pak Doo Ik , the North Korean forward , also wore odd shorts and he went on to score the winner against Italy , so I thought it was worth a try . |
| 10 | ( Since 1985 , as Table 9.3 will show , the cost of oil imports has fallen substantially , although not completely back to the 1979 level . ) |
| 11 | The tithe maps of Halling show all the property belonging to the Bishop of Rochester , but also that of owners bordering on these lands , so if we go back to the 1633 estate map we find that lands above the Pilgrims Road and in the area around Court Farm are owned by Luson or Leveson and the 1731 map shows Marsham and R. Wood as present owners . |
| 12 | Each had had a different school experience : one in a G.P.D. S.T. school right through from its junior department , another going from a local primary school to the secondary school for year , then to a formerly all-boys but now mixed public school up to the V form , and then back to the VI form College in her home area . |
| 13 | Some aspects of open enrolment go back to the 1980 Education Act . |
| 14 | In these uncertain and troubled circumstances he was called back to the one thing outside his faith in which he could place his trust . |
| 15 | So we come back to the one explanation which resolves every difficulty : the ‘ discovery ’ made by the monks of Canterbury in 1120–21 , as the canons of York at once realized , was the moment of their enlargement . |
| 16 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 17 | When you have practised the exercises for two or three weeks , go back to the two pages you read at the outset and time yourself as you read them again . |
| 18 | Then , turning back to the two boys , she added . |
| 19 | Switching the cabinet voicing off , you realise just how much it is working to condition the sound ready for tape ; because without it , you are straight back to the two gnats in a bottle sound , beloved of direct outputs on many amps . |
| 20 | You ge you forget yourself do n't you and you go back to the two times table , we 're on threes now . |
| 21 | She picked it up , went back to the two girls and dumped it unceremoniously over Peggy 's head . |
| 22 | Erm and and and we could take it back to the hundred days episode when the great powers have all er decided to er er to prevent Napoleon from making a comeback in France . |
| 23 | Apparently people are even going back to the fifties contraceptives ! |
| 24 | We are back to the three act drama with which we began . |
| 25 | Welcome back to the Three Counties Show at Malvern , where the weather has been kind , and the crowds have been flocking in . |
| 26 | Welcome back to the three counties show ground . |
| 27 | Next evening , bruised and with minor cuts and a cracked arm , I forced myself to go back to the three bars though , by then , very nervous . |
| 28 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 29 | The problem of organization went back to the 1881 Scheme which Higginson If I understood that Scheme at all " — took to mean that the two schools ( Upper and Lower ) were to he united absolutely into one . |
| 30 | The current embrace in Britain of utility clothing and design is best traced back to the Eighties baseball thing — the period when genuine US clothing brands , from workwear to sports names like Russell Athletic , began turning up in shops like London 's Passenger and The Duffer of St George . |